California’s Delete Act entered a major new phase on August 1, requiring registered data brokers to begin processing residents’ requests to erase personal information collected about them.The law created the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, known as DROP, which allows a California resident to send one deletion request to more... Read More »
A nationwide preliminary injunction covers qualifying Division I athletes who began competing in college during the 2022-23 school year, although transfer, roster, and professional-status rules remain in place.A federal judge in Colorado has temporarily ordered the NCAA to allow a nationwide group of Division I athletes to compete for a... Read More »
The Justice Department has asked a Washington, D.C., judge to dismiss the felony case against a former U.S. Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying newly obtained records show the pool’s coating failed because of a rushed and flawed installation rather than vandalism.Prosecutors filed the motion July... Read More »
A Marin County judge is expected to decide next month whether a teenage driver charged in a crash that killed four of her friends should enter a diversion program or face a juvenile trial.Relatives of the teenagers who died gave sharply different recommendations during an emotional court hearing on Wednesday,... Read More »
A Huntington Beach man has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter after prosecutors said he drove onto Pacific Coast Highway at about 50 mph while his friend held onto the pickup truck from an electric bicycle.The Orange County District Attorney’s Office charged 21-year-old Brandon Scott Soleau on July 17 with... Read More »
A California appeals court has ordered the return of more than $380,000 seized from a woman’s bank and retirement accounts to satisfy debts owed by a man who married her while he was still legally married to his first wife.The Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled May 20 that the... Read More »
New York City almost certainly lacks the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu solely because he enters the city, despite an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said the city’s Law Department is examining what authority New York officials might have... Read More »
A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to invalidate Minnesota laws and local policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, handing the state and several local governments a significant victory in the continuing dispute over so-called sanctuary jurisdictions.Chief U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud ruled on July... Read More »
President Donald Trump is rebuilding his tariff program around older trade laws that expressly authorize import duties, months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the sweeping tariffs he imposed under a federal emergency-powers statute.The new strategy has produced 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods under a rarely used provision... Read More »
A federal judge’s ruling in United States v. Heppner has become an early warning for lawyers, clients, and companies using generative artificial intelligence in legal matters: conversations with public AI chatbots may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine.The February 17 decision by U.S. District Judge... Read More »
Federal and local authorities arrested 10 people Wednesday in a new sweep targeting alleged sex trafficking along Los Angeles’ Figueroa Corridor, including several alleged members or associates of the Hoover Criminal Gang and the manager of a South Los Angeles motel.The arrests followed the unsealing of a 65-count superseding indictment... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship, ruling that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment.The decision in Trump v. Barbara blocks Executive Order... Read More »
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is trying to contain backlash from guitar makers, players, and online music commentators after sending cease-and-desist letters to companies it says are making guitars that too closely copy the Stratocaster design.The dispute, which began after Fender won a copyright ruling in Germany earlier this year, has... Read More »
Fender Musical Instruments Corp. has begun sending cease-and-desist letters to guitar manufacturers that make and sell instruments resembling the company’s Stratocaster, escalating a long-running dispute over one of the most recognizable electric guitar designs in popular music.The move follows a recent ruling from the Regional Court of Düsseldorf in Germany,... Read More »
The U.S. State Department will pause issuing immigrant visas at U.S. consulates worldwide for applicants who are nationals of 75 countries beginning January 21, 2026, citing concerns that applicants from those countries present a higher risk of becoming a “public charge,” a term used in immigration law for people deemed... Read More »
